Important Tips for Online Play

I only ran through 10 online matches last night, went 4-6 (I think that's impressive since when I started playing I was on my 12th beer in 2 and a half hours and it was past midnight, I also started 1-5) so I'm not by any means the greatest.

Here are some mistakes I made during my first 6 matches when I racked up the majority of my losses:

1) Watch your stamina.
- When you're gassed, it's nearly impossible to defend submissions. While it might seem like a good idea to reign down 20-30 hammerfists into someones guard from the ground (as they're blocking), it's just going to tire your fighter out and you'll get submitted. It's better to attack in bursts, weaken your opponent, wait until he's bloodied, THEN go for the barrage of hammerfists to end it.

2) When you initially take someone down, hitting shots to their face while they have your head pressed into their chest in their guard does very little damage.
- I actually had one fight where I just repeatedly hit the square button from this position, my opponent did nothing and Herb Dean stood us back up because it wasn't doing hardly any damage (it did make my fighter tired though). It's okay to toss a couple strikes from this position to soften your opponent up and get them to move off the transition block and onto strike block, but in the end it's much better to get up in your opponents guard (or obviously to work towards side control and eventually full mount) and deal hammerfists then.

3) Look at your fighters stats BEFORE you jump right into a match. If you're palying with someone who has a high submission defense, then you want to rotate the stick to escape. If you're playing with someone who has ridiculous strength and bad submission defense, then use the brute force button mashing. (this is very important... my first couple fights I had no idea what the difference was and I repeatedly got submitted from dominant positions where I was destroying the opponent in all other aspects)

4) Be very careful while running towards an opponent.
- In one match I was picking apart my opponent by faking running in, backing off and connecting with counters. Well, I tried to do it again, hit a lag spike and he connected with a knee to my face followed by a kick to my head and it was all over. Use the running button sparingly in online play because of the lag spikes. It's okay to mix it in every once in awhile obviously, but you don't want to hit a spike of lag while running because that's a quick way to get knocked out.

5) Read your opponents descriptions and make sure that you don't let him fight his type of fight.
- If the description says the guy likes to ground and pound, look to grab a kick and take him down. If it says he has a ton of submission victories, then make sure that if you do take him down, that you're conserving stamina and able to defend against the submission attempt that you know is eventually coming.

Pretty basic stuff, but I hadn't thought about it until I actually stepped in and started playing online.

While 100+ sounds like a bunch I bet I couldv'e hit it yesterday if I played online the whole time. I was doing some exhibitions to learn the guys and then created a fighter and did career mode for a while before jumping online. I probably logged 8-10 hours of active playing yesterday.
God bless the allergies that I am dealing with and getting half a day off work!

While 100+ sounds like a bunch I bet I couldv'e hit it yesterday if I played online the whole time. I was doing some exhibitions to learn the guys and then created a fighter and did career mode for a while before jumping online. I probably logged 8-10 hours of active playing yesterday.
God bless the allergies that I am dealing with and getting half a day off work!

you know, I actually had to stay home from work 3 times in the past month due to allergies, but if I got them bad now my girlfriend would call bulls---

While 100+ sounds like a bunch I bet I couldv'e hit it yesterday if I played online the whole time. I was doing some exhibitions to learn the guys and then created a fighter and did career mode for a while before jumping online. I probably logged 8-10 hours of active playing yesterday.
God bless the allergies that I am dealing with and getting half a day off work!

you know, I actually had to stay home from work 3 times in the past month due to allergies, but if I got them bad now my girlfriend would call bulls**t

Lol... My work actually sent me home yesterday! :lol:
With the Swine Flu scare they are really careful about people showing up to work sick. I was like ummmmmm OK BYE! Went straight to Game Stop and picked it up and went home and played all day and half of the night.

While 100+ sounds like a bunch I bet I couldv'e hit it yesterday if I played online the whole time. I was doing some exhibitions to learn the guys and then created a fighter and did career mode for a while before jumping online. I probably logged 8-10 hours of active playing yesterday.
God bless the allergies that I am dealing with and getting half a day off work!

you know, I actually had to stay home from work 3 times in the past month due to allergies, but if I got them bad now my girlfriend would call bulls**t

Lol... My work actually sent me home yesterday! :lol:
With the Swine Flu scare they are really careful about people showing up to work sick. I was like ummmmmm OK BYE! Went straight to Game Stop and picked it up and went home and played all day and half of the night.

damn, and I'm in New York, epicenter of the US swine flu outbreak, I should be at home in bed playing Undisputed

Watch the other guys stamina. Most guys are bad on the ground this early in the game being out, and they will spam transitions/ attacks on the ground. Keep blocking, move to a good position (i like North/South or to be on my back) and go for a N/S choke or triangle. It will work more often then not.

I'm something like 20-8 now, most of my wins coming from submissions, due to the other guy just being stupid with ground techniques.

I saw the same guy. It said he had 111 straight wins. There were a couple of other guys that were like 180-50 or something. And this was at like 11am as soon as I got home with the game.

that or he played his buddy over and over and over.........

I am willing to bet these are devolopers. I saw alot of video from the producer of the game and he talked aobut the the producers having tourneys and stuff at the office. So I would imagine they are on a bit of a curve right now.